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anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. we've seen throughout our history what happens when politics doesn't work, when democracy breaks down. the greatest, most heartbreaking example was america's failure to solve the moral challenge of slavery, a failure that led to civil war and as many as 750,000 dead. even then, it took a last act of political courage and prowess to permanently abolish slavery with the 13th amendment to the constitution. this is the story beautifully told in the motion picture "lincoln," directed by stephen spielberg and starring daniel day-lewis and sally field. the film presents the 16th president as an astute, capable pragmatist struggling to extract principle from an ugly war and from the muck of day-to-day politics. >> shall we stop this bleeding. abolishing slavery settles the fate for millions now in bondage, and unborn million
anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. we've seen throughout our history what happens when politics doesn't work, when democracy breaks down. the greatest, most heartbreaking example was america's failure to solve the moral challenge of slavery, a failure that led...
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anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome to this week's broadcast and the "troublemaker" of the year. that's right, my guest is the first recipient of a new award that singles out teenagers who are not afraid to speak their minds on major issues, even when everyone else around them disagrees. not afraid, in other words, to stir up trouble for a good cause. that's what zack kopplin was doing just the other day at a save texas schools rally in austin, the state capital. >> do we want texas tax dollars being used to fund private schools teaching creationism? say no, texas. >> no! >> zack kopplin was chosen to receive the first "troublemaker" of the year award because he's made waves fighting on behalf of science and against laws making it easier to teach creationism in public schools. today's fundamentalists, with political support from the right wing, are mor
anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome to this week's broadcast and the "troublemaker" of the year. that's right, my guest is the first recipient of a new award that singles out teenagers who are not afraid to speak their minds on major issues, even...
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anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. we lost a great journalist this week. anthony lewis was a longtime reporter and columnist at the "new york times." i knew him during my years in washington when he made his reputation as our foremost interpreter of the supreme court and the impact of its decisions on civil rights and liberties. as one legal scholar noted, lewis had "an incredible talent in making the law not only intelligible but also in making it compelling." this was tony lewis' masterpiece, "gideon's trumpet" an account of the supreme court's gideon v. wainwright ruling in 1963 that established the constitutional right of criminal defendants to an attorney, even if they had no money to pay for one. the book has never been out of print, its' story the subject of this cbs reports documentary. >> his name is clarence earl gideon. he argued there coul
anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. we lost a great journalist this week. anthony lewis was a longtime reporter and columnist at the "new york times." i knew him during my years in washington when he made his reputation as our foremost interpreter of...
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anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. these days what should be scaring the daylights out of us, the crisis which could make all the others irrelevant, is global warming. get this one wrong and it's over, not just for the usa but for planet earth. that's the message delivered by hurricane sandy last fall, and by almost all the extreme weather of the past two years. and it's the message from the most informed scientists in the world. they're scared, for real. and they say that unless we slow the release of global emissions from fossil fuels, slow it enough to keep the planet's temperature from rising by 2 degrees celsius, or 3.6 degrees fahrenheit, the earth's polar ice sheets will melt away, with catastrophic consequences. time's running out. recently not one, but two major scientific reports have concluded that the rapid increase in fossil fuel emission
anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. these days what should be scaring the daylights out of us, the crisis which could make all the others irrelevant, is global warming. get this one wrong and it's over, not just for the usa but for planet earth. that's the...